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Angel Gas and Condensate Project
The Angel platform lies 115km off Western Australia.	An LNG tanker at Karratha, where gas from the Angel Gas and Condensate Project is sent via the main Rankin trunkline.	The North Rankin A platform was modified to enable the supply of power and remote control of the Angel platform.

Bayu-Undan,
Bayu-Undan straddles the boundaries of blocks 91-12 and 91-13, within area A of the Australia / Indonesia Zone of Cooperation.	Bayu-Undan lies in the Timor Sea, 500km offshore of Darwin and 250km south of East Timor.	An aerial view of the Bayu-Undan platforms. The field life is expected to be 25 years.
An aerial view of a well at Bayu, which was discovered in early 1995.

Bohai Bay Field
A production terminal in the Bohai Bay field.	The Bozhong well was drilled in Yellow River Mouth Sag in March 2007.	The Jinzhou 9-3 field was discovered in April 2004.
The Luda 5-2 field.	The Luda 10-1 field.

Buffalo,
The FPSO, showing the single-point mooring.	The Buffalo Venture FPSO.	The wellhead platform.
Process equipment on the Buffalo Venture.	Adding buoyancy modules during the riser installation.	Installation of the wellhead platform by the Ron Tappmeyer.
Towing the wellhead platform to the Big Bank.	The FPSO, showing single-point mooring and swivel.

Galoc Oil Field
The Galoc oil field is situated north-west of Palawan.	The Galoc oil field is in a sandstone reservoir.

Gorgon,
The Northern Carnarvon basin, showing WA-267-P.	Artists impression of the Gorgon development, showing the main platform and subsea facilities.	Schematic of the Gorgon development.
Artists impression of the Gorgon development, showing the main platform and subsea facilities.	Aerial view of the Marine 5000, used to implement the AU$300 million drilling programme.	A side view of the Marine 5000.

Kambuna Gas Field
Drilling of the first conductor at the Kambuna gas field on 9 February 2008.	Kambuna-3 testing at 40mmscf in May 2008.	Lowering the wellhead support tower into place on 9 February 2008.

KG-DWN-98/1 (KG-D6), Bay of Bengal
The Reliance subsea field layout. Aker Kvaerner Subsea is responsible for the complete subsea production system in a $400m Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract.	In March, the deepwater rig Discover 534 discovered Dhirubhai-4, with in-place gas volumes of 1,700 billion standard cubic feet (bcf).	The REM Etive will be used for installation, commissioning, and inspection / maintenance / repair, having two work-class ROVs, crane capacity, and an active heave compensated winch system.

Kikeh Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Development
The Kikeh Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.	THE FPSO Kikeh has a storage capacity of two million barrels.	The Technip spar will incorporate a tender assisted drilling rig to drill and complete the Kikeh wells.
At the bow, is the external turret which can accommodate up to 17 flexible risers.	The Kikeh subsea production system, including umbilicals was supplied by Aker Kvaerner.	The Rockwater 2 will provide installation support to the Kikeh FSPO.

Kipper Gas Field,
Location of the Kipper gas field and the Longford processing plant.	False colour image of the Gippsland Basin – a prolific area of world-class oil and gas reserves.	Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. The Kipper gas field lies 45km offshore, in 100m of water.
Gippsland Basin tectonics and fields; the Kipper field was discovered in 1986 when a gas column was intersected in fluvial sandstones of the Golden Beach Subgroup.

Kupe
The hot oil drum and debutaniser column.	An aerial view of Kupe.	The topsides installation at Kupe in December 2007.

Laminaria,
Lifting the pre-assembled units (PAUs) onto the Northern Endeavour at the Sembawang shipyard, in Singapore.	Fabrication of the PAUs at United Construction, Freemantle.	Lower turret at Noell Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Lifting the turret gantry structure onto the Northern Endeavour at Sembawang.	FPSO mooring piles.	Northern Endeavour en route to the Timor Sea. Clearly visible is the debutaniser column, behind the forward internal turret.

Langsa Oil Pool, Straits of Malacca
Location map of Langsa.	The block location map.	The Langsa field covers 77km² and is found 90km ENE of Mobil/Exxon’s giant Arun gas/condensate field.

Liuhua 11-1,
Liuhua 11-1 field top carbonate depth structure map.	Computer-generated schematic of Liuhua 11-1 FPS and FPSO.	The FPS is a modified semi-submersible drilling rig. Shown are the 25 flexible catenary lines on the FPS riser system.
FPS Nanhai Tiao Zhan was converted from a semi-submersible drilling rig, purchased in September 1993.	FPSO Nanhai Sheng Li. The FPSO supports the processing equipment necessary to handle up to 5,000bbl of oil and 300,000bbl of total fluids per day.

Liwan 3-1 Gas Field,
Development of the field began in the second quarter of 2006 when Husky drilled the Liwan 3-1-1 exploration well.	The West Hercules deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig can run parallel drilling operations and is designed with a dynamic positioning system and can operate in waters up to 3,000m deep.	In 2004, Husky Energy signed a production sharing contract with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for the 3,965km² block.

Lufeng 22-1,
The shuttle tanker Navion Munin, on location at the Lufeng field.	The Navion Munin cargo tank section consists of 18 cargo tanks and two slop tanks, giving a total capacity of 101,400m³.	Navion Munin is moored using the submerged turret system originally designed for shuttle-tanker loading.
Production on-board Navion Munin is designed to process a wide range of oil and water rates.	Schematic of the FPSO over the Lufeng field.	Schematic of the anchoring system, employed to moor the Navion Munin.
Schematic of the subsea completion on Lufeng.

Malampaya,
The Malampaya field development diagram.	Schematic of the Malmpaya complex.	The mating of the integrated topside facilities and the gravity base structure of the Malampaya platform.
To ensure an even surface, 361 mounds of rock were placed, totalling 17,000t.	A channel 150m wide and 12m deep was dredged from Green Beach to Subic Bay.	The concrete gravity structure is permanently ballasted by placing 75,000t of iron ore in its open cells.
Rock dumping enables scour protection of the gravity structure.

Montara Oil Field, Timor Sea
PTTEP personnel on the Montara wellhead platform.	Well control boarding team making checks.	Montara wellhead platform in the Timor Sea.

Mutineer-Exeter
The Mutineer-Exeter oil fields are being developed using the MODEC Venture II FPSO.	The Mutineer-Exeter development is located 150km north of Dampier on the north-west coast of Australia, in the offshore Carnarvon Basin.	MODEC Venture II can be evacuated from the field due to its unique disconnectable turret system.
The FPSO is installed in 156m of water and is capable of processing 100,000bopd.	The FPSO was converted from the 140,000dwt 1992 Mitsui-built double-hulled Suezmax tanker Fairway.

Natuna Gas Field
In January 1999, a sales agreement was concluded to deliver gas to Singapore from Block B, the neighbouring Natuna Sea Block A and Kakap Block, through the first Indonesian subsea pipeline connecting foreign markets.	INPEX is scheduled to commence production from the Kerisi Field in 2007, and the North Belut Field in 2009.	Natuna Premier completed a four-well development drilling programme in 2006 using the Seadrill-5 drilling rig.
The Belanak Natuna is strategically placed to supply gas to Singapore.	Compass energy converted VLGC gas concord on the ConocoPhillips' Belanak LPG-FSO project, May 2006.

Otway Basin
Minerva, Casino Geographe and Thylacine are all located in the Otway Basin, at the southern tip of Australia.	Minerva came on stream in early 2005. The field is located in VIC/L22 permit, approximately 10km from Port Campbell in 60m of water.	The Minerva development consists of two subsea well completions producing through 10km of 10in pipeline to the shore.
Schematic of the Geographe / Thylacine development.

Pluto LNG Project
An overview of the Pluto LNG project.	The Pluto LNG project is located about 190km north-west of Karratha, Western Australia, in the Northern Carnarvon Basin.

PM-3 Commercial Arrangement Area
The PM-3 Commercial Arrangement Area (CAA) project centres on the installation of four new wellhead platforms, a central processing platform, compression annexe platform, floating storage offloading vessel and inter-field pipelines.	The topsides were installed in a novel floatover operation using the COSCO Class 2 dynamic positioned (DP) Heavy Lift Vessel (HLV) Tai An Kou.	This was the first floatover performed using DP control and the first such operation for the Tai An Kou.
Development drilling of the 60-well programme commenced in October 2002.	The PM-3 CAA project will extract oil and gas from six different offshore fields.	Phase 1 oil production commenced in July 1997. Phases 2 and 3 achieved peak production early 2004.

Salamander Energy Bualuang Oil Project, Gulf of Thailand
Bualuang jacket.	The Bualuang topside.	The installed platform.

Songkhla Oil Field,
Songkhla jack up rig.	Gulf of Thailand map.	Example of an oil ship, like the one under construction in the Gulf of Thailand.

Stag,
The $64 million EPIC contract for the provision of a platform was won by Bouygues Offshore.	The topsides, in the form of a six-leg jack-up barge, were towed on top of the submerged jacket. Afterwards, the deck legs were lowered.	The 1200t six-leg jacket, equipped with temporary catamaran buoyancy.
Following the deck installation, the risers, boat landings and caissons were hooked up.	The Stag A platform was elevated with a 20m air gap.

Stybarrow Oil Field
The subsea production wells are tied back into a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) called the FPSO Stybarrow Venture MV16.	The naming ceremony of the FPSO Stybarrow Venture MV16, the disconnectable, double-hulled unit owned and operated by MODEC.	The Stybarrow field was discovered in February 2003, when the Stybarrow-1 well, drilled in the Macedon member sandstone reservoir, encountered a gross oil column of 23m with 18.6m of net pay.
The final deck block being fitted to the FPSO Stybarrow Venture MV16.

Tui, Amokura and Pateke Reserves
Four wells will be connected to an FPSO as part of the Tui Area Oil Project.	The drilling operation includes using the Ocean Patriot for drilling up to three exploration wells in the offshore Taranaki basin.	Three oil fields - Tui, Amokura and Pateke reserves located in PEP 38460, the offshore Taranaki basin, New Zealand - are being developed in phases.
The FPSO, which has been designed to cater to different types of offtake oil tankers, will handle 120,000 barrels of oil per day.

Van Gogh Oil Project
The first end chain on the barge.	The Ningaloo Vision Floating Production Storage and Offtake (FPSO) vessel.	Transporting the subsea manifold.

West Seno, Makassar Strait
The West Seno field in the Makassar Strait PSC is Indonesia's first deepwater development.	The first tension leg platform, TLP A, was installed in February 2003.	Development plan of the West Seno field.
The floating production unit, located 500m from TLP A, is a spread-moored barge lying in 3,200ft of water.	The Lorelay pipelay vessel laid the lines out to approx. 1,060m of water at the FPU location.

Wonnich,
The topsides and jacket, ready for sailaway.	The Wonnich topsides were lowered into position.	The transportation barge leaving Freemantle harbour.
The lower substructure being loaded out.	The installation of the topsides.	The upper and lower substructure, topsides and piles en route to the site.

Yadana Gas Field
Yadana field is on the Andaman sea.	Total are the field operators.

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